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Did you know this GIS Stack Exchange site's birthday is coming up on 3/7/2012? Congratulations!

How about a contest or some other fun activity to stir things up a little? After a year of great Q&A, we'd like the opportunity to "give back" for everyone's hard work.

Anniversary events area a great way to spark some interest in the extracurricular activity in your site (more meta participation). An “anniversary event" can be just about anything. Take a look at Super User’s 2nd Birthday Super Contest for inspiration. It doesn’t have to be a contest. Dream up whatever you feel the community will find interesting, and go for it.

Use this meta post or schedule a chat event to work out the details. Rally support for your event and bring it to our attention (community@stackexchange.com). We're really interested in community-lead initiatives, so let’s just say, if you can work out the details, we’re very motivated to say “go for it!”

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How do you come up with that, Robert? The oldest question on this site is from 5 August 2010, almost five months later. Take a look at meta.gis.stackexchange.com/questions/548/gis-se-is-one-year-old, too, which dates the Beta to late July. – whuber♦ Feb 15 '12 at 20:41
@whuber The "anniversary" is the graduation date when the site launched out of its beta. – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 15 '12 at 20:51
That would be around September '10, then, right? For example, this question documents the site was still in Beta on 9/9/2010. – whuber♦ Feb 15 '12 at 20:52
@whuber That's all about the private beta. This is for "graduation", when the site got it's own design, etc -- meta.gis.stackexchange.com/questions/319/new-design-launched – Robert Cartaino♦ Feb 15 '12 at 21:06
@RobertCartaino FTFY. :P – Aarthi Feb 15 '12 at 22:09
Ah--so you mean our first birthday. I was misled by the reference to a "2nd Birthday Super Contest." – whuber♦ Feb 17 '12 at 18:22

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We could run a Where is this? question every day for a week or so.

Hint: a hot spot in a cold place.

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Update, Another clue: enter image description here

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I know! This is on a google-generated tile! – Ragi Yaser Burhum Feb 22 '12 at 1:17
lol, Another hint: it is not a Rorschach showing a profile of me looking west. – Kirk Kuykendall Feb 22 '12 at 1:27
[Spoiler!] French Southern and Antarctic Lands > maps.google.com/… – Mapperz♦ Feb 24 '12 at 22:32
I think @Mapperz deserves a (long sleeved) GIS.SE shirt. – Kirk Kuykendall Feb 27 '12 at 15:12

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